Citation: Sweet, Hort. Brit. edn 2, 593 (1830).

Synonymy: Campanula gracilis Forster f. var. stricta R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1:561 (1810); W. consimilis Loth., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 71:223 (1947); W. trichogyna Stearn, Gdnrs' Chron. 130:169 (1951); W. vinciflora sensu Loth., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 71:220 (1947), non (Vent.)Decne.

Common name: Tall (or austral) bluebell.

Description:
Perennial tufted herbs with a fleshy rootstock; hirsute throughout or only the lower parts hirsute, sometimes glabrous throughout; stems 10-90 cm long, branching below the inflorescence; leaves opposite, becoming alternate up the stem, 5-70 cm long, 1-13 mm wide, obovate or oblanceolate, becoming linear up the stem, margins typically undulate.

Inflorescence a terminal cyme; receptacle 2-4 mm long, ellipsoidal or globular; sepals 5, sometimes 4 or 6, 3-16 mm long, narrowly-triangular, acute; corolla blue or sometimes white, campanulate; tube 4-11 mm long, cylindrical; lobes 5, sometimes 4 or 6, 6-20 mm long, less than twice as long as the tube, narrowly elliptical; stamens 5, sometimes 4 or 6; filaments c. 2 mm long, rhombic with protuberant shoulders; anthers c. 5 mm long; ovary 3-celled; style 5.5-13 mm long, 3-fid, uncontracted, with 2-4 glands below each stigmatic cleft.

Capsule 3-10 mm long, ellipsoidal or globular.

	Habit.
Image source: fig. 626d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Burbidge & Gray (1979) Flora of the A.C.T., fig. 351; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 627.

Distribution:  A common species found in grassy sites in a variety of vegetation types.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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